Logistic regression of persistent ties for patient-sharing relationships for medication therapy management of hypertensive patients in Yinzhou from 2010 to 2018
| One-year persistent ties | Two-year persistent ties | Three-year persistent ties | ||||
| OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | |
| Strength | ||||||
| (1,3) | Reference | – | Reference | – | Reference | – |
| (3,5) | 3.987*** | (3.896 to 4.08) | 3.203*** | (3.13 to 3.274) | 2.790*** | (2.724 to 2.858) |
| (5,7) | 6.379*** | (6.147 to 6.626) | 4.716*** | (4.563 to 4.874) | 3.796*** | (3.669 to 3.924) |
| (7,9) | 8.373*** | (7.941 to 8.829) | 6.019*** | (5.755 to 6.29) | 4.614*** | (4.424 to 4.816) |
| ≥9 | 11.965*** | (11.6 to 12.354) | 8.290*** | (8.077 to 8.508) | 6.184*** | (6.032 to 6.341) |
| Hospital characteristics | ||||||
| Not in the same hospital | Reference | – | Reference | – | Reference | – |
| Same hospital | 1.510*** | (1.48 to 1.54) | 1.402*** | (1.373 to 1.43) | 1.358*** | (1.33 to 1.385) |
| Physician specialty | ||||||
| PCP-PCP | Reference | – | Reference | – | Reference | – |
| PCP-Specialist | 0.876*** | (0.862 to 0.891) | 0.693*** | (0.68 to 0.705) | 0.555*** | (0.544 to 0.567) |
| Specialist-Specialist | 0.566*** | (0.55 to 0.582) | 0.463*** | (0.45 to 0.476) | 0.384*** | (0.373 to 0.396) |
| Year | ||||||
| 2010 | Reference | – | Reference | – | Reference | – |
| 2011 | 0.803*** | (0.779 to 0.826) | 0.854*** | (0.829 to 0.879) | 0.937*** | (0.909 to 0.965) |
| 2012 | 0.826*** | (0.803 to 0.85) | 0.914*** | (0.888 to 0.94) | 1.035*** | (1.005 to 1.065) |
| 2013 | 0.791*** | (0.768 to 0.813) | 0.905*** | (0.88 to 0.931) | 0.696*** | (0.676 to 0.716) |
| 2014 | 0.811*** | (0.789 to 0.834) | 0.599*** | (0.583 to 0.617) | 0.429*** | (0.416 to 0.442) |
| 2015 | 0.510*** | (0.496 to 0.524) | 0.379*** | (0.368 to 0.39) | 0.221*** | (0.214 to 0.228) |
One-year persistent ties represent ties that generating in 1 year and persist in the next year, 2 year represents persisting in next 2 years and 3 year represents persisting in next 3 years; when considering the 3year- persistent ties, the ties generating in 2015 that persists in 2018, therefore, the year of 2016, 2017 and 2018 were unobservable.
***p<0.001, **p<0.01, *p<0.05.
PCP, primary care physicians.